scarcely
The word “scarcely” has 2 syllables: scarce-ly
It's pronounced as /ˈskɛrsli/
What is synonym and antonym for scarcely?
In the thesaurus, “scarcely” has 31 synonyms and 48 antonyms.
Here are synonyms and antonyms for scarcely along with examples of usage in sentences.
Synonyms for scarcely
- almost
- approximately
- barely
- by no means
- closely
- hardly
- ill
- just
- marginally
- minimally
- minutely
- more or less
- narrowly
- near
- nearly
- never
- no
- no way
- none
- nothing
- nothing doing
- noway
- nowhere
- nowise
- on no account
- partly
- plus or minus
- roughly
- scantly
- slightly
- somewhat
Antonyms for scarcely
- absolutely
- abundantly
- assuredly
- awful
- awfully
- certainly
- clearly
- completely
- considerably
- copiously
- definitely
- doubtless
- easily
- enormously
- exceeding
- exceedingly
- extremely
- fully
- generously
- greatly
- hands down
- highly
- hugely
- immensely
- mightily
- mighty
- more or less
- most
- mostly
- perfectly
- plainly
- positively
- quite
- rather
- really
- significantly
- slightly
- somewhat
- substantially
- surely
- terribly
- truly
- unequivocally
- unquestionably
- utterly
- vastly
- very
- well
Meanings of scarcely
- adverb
- (modal) Probably not.
- (modal) Certainly not.
- (degree) Almost not at all; by a small margin.
Example Sentences
- She had scarcely finished speaking when the phone rang.
- We could scarcely believe the news when it was announced.
- There was scarcely enough food to feed everyone.
- He had scarcely any memory of what happened that night.
- The village was scarcely visible through the thick fog.
On this page you'll find 79 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to scarcely, such as: absolutely, abundantly, almost, approximately, assuredly, awful, awfully.
Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.
Related Words
a bit
- a few
- a little
- a mite
- a tad
- a touch
- a trifle
- acceptably
- after a sort
- all
- any
- averagely
- barely
- comparatively
- decently
- each
- each and every
- either
- enough
- fairly
- half
- halfway
- hardly
- in a certain degree
- in general
- incompletely
- just
- kind of
- kindly
- like
- little
- marginally
- meagerly
- minimally
- moderately
- more or less
- negligibly
- nominally
- of a sort
- of sorts
- part
- part of
- partially
- partly
- partway
- passably
- pretty
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- rather
- ratherish
- reasonably
- relatively
- scantily
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- several
- slightly
- so-so
- some
- something
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- sort of
- to a degree
- to some degree
- to some extent
- tolerably
- vaguely
- whatever
ill
- Cimmerian
- a wreck
- abominable
- abomination
- abuse
- abusively
- abysmal
- accident
- achy
- acrimonious
- adverse
- adversity
- affection
- afflicted
- affliction
- aggressively
- ail
- ailing
- ailment
- airsick
- anathema
- antagonistic
- assertively
- atrocious
- atrociousness
- atrocity
- attack
- awful
- bad
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- baneful
- bastard
- below par
- black
- bleak
- blow
- body blow
- bout
- brutal
- brutally
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- bug
- bum
- bummed
- bush
- bush-league
- by no means
- calamity
- callously
- cancer
- canker
- cantankerous
- carsick
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- challenged
- cheerless
- cheesy
- chill
- circumstance
- cloudy
- coarse
- cold
- cold-bloodedly
- comfortless
- common
- complaint
- complication
- condition
- contagion
- contagious
- contagious disease
- contagium
- corruption
- counterfeit
- crappy
- cross
- cruddy
- cruelty
- crumby
- crummy
- curse
- cut-rate
- damage
- damaging
- damnable
- dangerous
- dark
- darkening
- darkness
- deadly
- debauchery
- debilitated
- debility
- decay
- decidedly
- decrepit
- decrepitude
- defeat
- defective
- deficient
- degeneracy
- deleterious
- deplorable
- depravedness
- depravity
- depressing
- depressive
- desolate
- destiny
- destruction
- destructive
- determinedly
- detestable
- detrimental
- devilishness
- devilry
- deviltry
- diabolism
- dim
- dire
- direful
- disabled
- disappointment
- disaster
- disastrous
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- disease
- diseased
- disheartening
- dismal
- disorder
- disordered
- disrespectful
- dissatisfactory
- distemper
- distemperature
- distress
- disturbing
- dizzy
- doom
- doomy
- down
- down with
- dreadful
- drear
- dreary
- dreich
- egregious
- elegiac
- elegiacal
- enormity
- epidemic
- evil
- evildoing
- evilness
- execrable
- failure
- fake
- fatal
- fate
- faulty
- feeble
- feebleness
- feeling awful
- feeling rotten
- feeling terrible
- fever
- feverish
- fiendishness
- firmly
- fit
- fizzle
- flagrant
- flawed
- foreboding
- forlorn
- foul
- fragile
- frail
- frailness
- from hunger
- funereal
- gloomy
- glum
- gnarly
- godforsaken
- got the bug
- gray
- green
- grey
- grimly
- gross
- gruffly
- halt
- hard
- hard-heartedly
- hardly
- hardship
- harm
- harmful
- harsh
- harshly
- hateful
- hazardous
- heartlessly
- heinousness
- hopeless
- horrendous
- horrible
- hostile
- hurt
- hurtful
- hypochondriac
- hypochondriacal
- ill-boding
- ill-fated
- ill-mannered
- ill-starred
- illness
- immorality
- imperiling
- imperilling
- impertinent
- inadequate
- inauspicious
- incapacitated
- indecency
- indisposed
- indisposition
- infection
- infectious
- infective
- inferior
- infirm
- infirmity
- inhumanely
- inhumanly
- inimical
- iniquitous
- iniquitousness
- iniquity
- injurious
- injury
- insensately
- insensitively
- insidious
- insufficient
- insult
- invalid
- jeopardizing
- junky
- killer
- knock
- lacking
- laid low
- lame
- lameness
- lesser
- letdown
- lethal
- light-headed
- lonely
- lonesome
- lot
- lousy
- low-grade
- low-rent
- lugubrious
- malady
- malaise
- malefaction
- malevolent
- malice
- malicious
- malign
- malignant
- matter
- meager
- meagre
- mean
- mediocre
- menacing
- mercilessly
- minatory
- misadventure
- mischance
- mischief
- mischievous
- miscreant
- miserable
- miserly
- misery
- misfortune
- mishap
- morbid
- morose
- murky
- nasty
- nauseated
- nauseous
- near
- never
- niggardly
- no
- no way
- nocent
- nocuous
- noisome
- none
- nonsuccess
- nothing
- nothing doing
- noway
- nowhere
- nowise
- noxious
- obdurately
- odious
- off
- ominous
- on no account
- on sick list
- oppressively
- out of sorts
- pain
- paltry
- parlous
- pathetic
- peaked
- peaky
- perilous
- pernicious
- perversion
- pervertedness
- pest
- pestiferous
- pestilence
- pestilent
- pestilential
- phoney
- phony
- pip
- pitilessly
- plague
- plutonian
- poisonous
- poor
- poorly
- portentous
- portion
- prejudicial
- punk
- qualmish
- queasy
- queazy
- queer
- queerish
- reprehensible
- resolutely
- risky
- rot
- rotten
- roughly
- rubbishy
- ruinous
- run down
- run-down
- running a temperature
- ruthlessly
- satanism
- saturnine
- savagely
- scanty
- scarcely
- scurrility
- scurrilous
- scurrilousness
- seasick
- second-rate
- seedy
- sepulchral
- setback
- severely
- shabby
- shaky
- sham
- shoddy
- short
- sick
- sick as a dog
- sickened
- sickish
- sickliness
- sickly
- sickness
- sin
- sinfulness
- sinister
- skimp
- skimpy
- sleazy
- somber
- sombre
- sorrow
- sour
- spare
- spell
- squalor
- squeamish
- star-crossed
- sternly
- stiffly
- stingy
- stinky
- strongly
- suboptimal
- subpar
- substandard
- sucky
- suffering
- sullen
- sunless
- surly
- symptomatic
- syndrome
- taboo
- tabu
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- terrible
- threatening
- toughly
- tragedy
- trashy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- troubled
- tyrannically
- unacceptable
- uncharitably
- under par
- under the weather
- unfavorable
- unfeelingly
- unfortunate
- unfriendly
- ungracious
- unhappiness
- unhealthful
- unhealthiness
- unhealthy
- unkind
- unlucky
- unmercifully
- unpleasantness
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- unsafe
- unsatisfactory
- unsettled
- unsound
- unsoundness
- unsparingly
- unspeakable
- unwell
- unwellness
- unwholesome
- upset
- useless
- valueless
- venomous
- viciously
- vile
- vileness
- villainous
- villainy
- wack
- wanting
- weak
- weakly
- weakness
- wicked
- wickedness
- woe
- woozy
- worthless
- wretched
- wrong
narrowly
painstakingly
- absolutely
- actively
- agilely
- all
- all the way
- almost
- altogether
- amain
- animatedly
- ardently
- arduously
- assiduously
- attentively
- barely
- briskly
- busily
- by a hair
- by a whisker
- by narrow margin
- carefully
- close
- closely
- competently
- completely
- comprehensively
- conclusively
- conscientiously
- continuously
- determinedly
- diligently
- doggedly
- dynamically
- eagerly
- earnestly
- effectively
- efficiently
- en masse
- energetically
- enthusiastically
- entirely
- exceedingly
- exceptionally
- exclusively
- exhaustively
- expeditiously
- extensively
- extremely
- fervently
- feverishly
- finally
- flat out
- from A to Z
- from beginning to end
- from top to bottom
- fully
- hard
- hardly
- hastily
- highly
- hugely
- hurriedly
- in all
- in and out
- in detail
- in entirety
- in full
- in toto
- indefatigably
- industriously
- inside out
- intensely
- intensively
- intently
- laboriously
- like all get out
- like the devil
- like the dickens
- meticulously
- mightily
- nearly
- nimbly
- notably
- obstinately
- on all counts
- only just
- perfectly
- perseveringly
- persistently
- ploddingly
- purposefully
- quite
- remarkably
- resolutely
- restlessly
- scarcely
- scrupulously
- scrutinizingly
- searchingly
- sedulously
- seriously
- sharply
- slavishly
- slowly
- solidly
- speedily
- spiritedly
- steadfastly
- steadily
- strenuously
- strikingly
- stubbornly
- studiously
- sweepingly
- thoroughly
- through and through
- throughout
- tirelessly
- to the end
- to the limit
- to the max
- to the nth degree
- tortuously
- totally
- ultimately
- unabatedly
- unabridged
- unanimously
- unconditionally
- undividedly
- unflaggingly
- unrelentingly
- unremittingly
- untiringly
- unweariedly
- up and down
- utterly
- vehemently
- very
- vigilantly
- vigorously
- vivaciously
- wearilessly
- whole hog
- wholly
- willfully
- with heart and soul
- without omission
- zealously